The Deck, Saturday Morning

[not_of_the_nora]

The weather had gotten drearier over the past few weeks, and that suited Aloy just fine. Too much sunshine wasn't good for the land - regardless of what the people of this time did to keep the food and drinks flowing freely.

No, a rainy morning was fine. She'd been tinkering on something that might be a step towards plugging herself into the portal system for a while now. She took the device, a mess of wires and two skillfully autopsied phones, and sat down with it on the porch.

Her Focus was on, showing her a multitude of facts about the device she was working on, and helping her block out the world.

Tinker, tinker...

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[likesthebeatsandshouting]

"Lana Beniko," she repeated, getting a feel for the words in her mouth. "I am Jaylah."

[unusual_sith]

"Jaylah." Lana nodded. "It's a pleasure to meet you.

[likesthebeatsandshouting]

Which would always throw Jaylah off a little, but by now she was becoming used to the strange lies people told each other on this planet to be 'polite'.

"Are you new?" she went with instead of returning the sentiment.

[unusual_sith]

Lana was used to politeness, but she couldn't sense any hostility from Jaylah, so she wrote it off as a cultural difference.

"I am, yes. Are you?"

[likesthebeatsandshouting]

She just was a socially awkward, semi-feral scrapper from shitty, shitty murder planet!

"Yes. My time here has only been a number of the local months."

[unusual_sith]

Lana nodded. "Where are you from?" If Jaylah preferred blunt simplicity, she could do that.

[likesthebeatsandshouting]

At that, Jaylah scrunched her nose up. "I do not remember where my home planet is. My family was forced to crash in a nebula and I lived there until I was brought to Earth to join their Star Fleet."

Because apparently she needed some social skills. Which. Pfft. Ridiculous, right? She did just fine.

[unusual_sith]

"I thought Earth didn't have space travel yet?" Lana said, confused. Then she realized. "Ah. You're from a different time, then?"

[likesthebeatsandshouting]

"Their future apparently. I was informed this place 'does that sometimes'." She made sure to say the last part with a huff of annoyance.

[unusual_sith]

Lana nodded. "I haven't experienced it here yet, but one of the other girls is from the same galaxy as I am, but apparently a very different time. How far into the future are you?" she asked.

[likesthebeatsandshouting]

"Several centuries," she replied. "But by their records, it should be recovering from wars."

Which made the lack of wars kinda weird. But, you know, retcons happened.

[unusual_sith]

"Now, you mean?" Lana frowned. "They don't seem to be. Maybe the records are wrong?"

[likesthebeatsandshouting]

That'd be great because then we could also retcon the awfulness of Into Darkness!

"I will ask," Jaylah declared, probably going to give people back 'home' a heart attack with those questions.

[unusual_sith]

Star Wars: undermining Star Trek since 1977

"Hopefully they'll know," Lana said. "So, what are you meant to be studying?"

[likesthebeatsandshouting]

"Proper socialization," she said, very clearly repeating what she had been told by someone else.

[unusual_sith]

Lana frowned. "They teach that as a subject?"

Then again, some Sith could clearly use it.

[likesthebeatsandshouting]

"They do not." Well, they did in a way. It was called 'going to high school'. "That is why I think this to be a waste of time."

[unusual_sith]

"Ah, so you're here before you can join their Star Fleet?" Lana thought about that. "If you'll be on a ship for any amount of time, it's important to be able to get along with the people there," she surmised. "You may be stationed together for long periods of time in relatively small spaces, and killing each other is generally frowned upon."

Unless you were Sith.

[likesthebeatsandshouting]

"I would not kill them." Injure? Yes. "Not unless they try to kill me first."

[unusual_sith]

Lana snickered. "Not severely injure them, then. It's good to know what sorts of quirks people have and how to live with them."